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| Surber: NYT publishes a racist screed |
| 2021-12-07 |
| A Wakandan separatist writes in the NY Times. They should come out and admit it: Black separatism is the avowed policy of left wing media and the national government. [DonSurber] Erin Aubry Kaplan is a journalist and author who grew up in the South Central section of Los Angeles and nearby Inglewood. She doesn't want any white people moving to Inglewood. She is OK with Latinos moving in. But white people, stay out. She doesn't want white people coming into her neighborhood with their white people ways and their white people's food and their white people smell. In a column in the New York Times, Kaplan wrote of building "one of those little free-standing library boxes that dot lawns in bedroom communities around the country." Her reasoning behind the friendly library was rather unfriendly. She wrote, "Why not? A library is not so much a marker of wealth and whiteness as it is an affirmation of community and cozy, small-town camaraderie that Inglewood, a mostly black and Latino city in southwestern Los Angeles County, has plenty of. We deserved no less. "Pre-pandemic, Inglewood was gentrifying, another reason I’d been inspired to do the library: I wanted to signal to my longtime neighbors that we had our own ideas about improvement, and could carry them out in our own way." Gentrification means white people moving in. Liberals never quite say that, but it is what they mean. Stick to your own kind. She wrote, "one morning, glancing out my front window, I saw a young white couple stopped at the library. Instantly, I was flooded with emotions — astonishment, and then resentment, and then astonishment at my resentment. It all converged into a silent scream in my head of, Get off my lawn! "The moment jolted me into realizing some things I’m not especially proud of. I had set out this library for all who lived here, and even for those who didn’t, in theory. I would not want to restrict anyone from looking at it or taking books, based on race or anything else. But while I had seen white newcomers to the neighborhood here and there, the truth was, I hadn’t set it out to appeal to white residents." She is like a Klansman putting up a basketball hoop and watching a black player show up. Oh the horror! She wrote, "By bringing this modern cultural artifact here from white neighborhoods, had I set myself up, set up the neighborhood? Was I contributing to gentrification and sending the wrong message about how I wanted the neighborhood to be? "What I resented was not this specific couple. It was their whiteness, and my feelings of helplessness at not knowing how to maintain the integrity of a black space that I had created. I was seeing up close how fragile that space can be, how its meaning can be changed in my mind, even by people who have no conscious intention to change it. That library was on my lawn, but for that moment it became theirs. I built it and drove it into the ground because I love books and always have. But I suddenly felt that I could not own even this, something that was clearly and intimately mine." Read the rest at the link |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #6 Rob The late Mr Kaplan was white. The late Mr Kaplan was a high school history teacher for 15 years in LA dying in 2015. Also, here is Erin Audry's words from a 2003 piece in Salon called "Black like me" (about nose jobs), "When I was about 10, my older brother sometimes called me "Pug." I didn't like it, but it never really galled me the way my brother hoped it would, because as insults went, "pug" was pretty tame. This was the '70s, when the black-is-beautiful movement was in full swing and my light complexion and fine hair -- which could never muster enough kink to be whipped into the requisite Afro -- made me worry that I wasn't black enough..." |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2021-12-07 17:05 |
| #5 Sort of like "dried fruit peddler." Which is dried, the fruit or the peddler? Both? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-12-07 06:54 |
| #4 Garth, what's "white history"? Or was the poor fellow just a white guy who likely taught Zinn's cult? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2021-12-07 06:52 |
| #3 She doesn't want any white people moving to Inglewood She is OK with Latinos moving in.. Um... sista, you know bout dis, right? "Assimilation has been a goal of Mexican Americans for most of their history. "When the 1930 Census classified “Mexican American” as a race, leaders of the community protested vehemently and had the classification changed back to white...." |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2021-12-07 06:02 |
| #2 Bet she only speaks 'English'. |
| Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-12-07 00:28 |
| #1 as pointed out in comments her late Husband was a white history teacher and somehow she doesn't realize that a lot of Latinos don't like blacks and visa versa |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2021-12-07 00:18 |